Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been controversial in the U.S. since the business began to boom. As protests have grown across the country, some police departments have begun working closely with the oil and gas industries to monitor activists

Oklahoma recorded more than three times as many earthquakes as California in 2014 and remains well ahead in 2015. Earthquakes were rare in Oklahoma until 2009 click play on the interactive map. Increase coincides with fracking in the area.

Montana legislators have brushed off the attempts of farmers, ranchers and landowners to effect 'zoning' regulations to protect them, their land, their water and their livestock from the toxic impacts of fracking.Now they say: 'See you in Court!'

You might think it would be hard to find opposition to fracking in the city of Denton. Not only is it in Texas, the oil and gas capital in the United States âEUR" but it lies in the very crucible of the shale gas industry itself.

Fracking wastewater is a critical reason why communities around the world are calling for a ban on fracking. We commend the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick governments for committing to a moratorium on fracking, but there is still the outstanding issue

Yesterday it was reported that a fracking waste companyâEUR"NGL Water Solutions DJ LLCâEUR"that was linked to causing earthquakes is allowed by Gov. John HickenlooperâEUR(TM)s appointed oil and gas commission to increase their fracking waste injection operations